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To: The Fix who wrote (4547)	12/20/1997 11:53:00 AM
From: Walt	Respond to of 26850

One learns by asking questions. Portage comes from the french word to carry. Early transportage was by water ways and when you run out of lake or river you have to portage your stuff to the next body of water.So the trails between lakes are called portages. So the name has stuck for any overland route between two lakes or bodies of water. (Portage Ave is one of the main streets in winnipeg when the portage turned into a road). When setting out a winter road they try to take advantage of as many lakes as possible, they are flat and easier to drive. Then between the lakes they try to pick the easiest shortest route for the portages. Once a route is in they usually use the same route year after year However if you are putting in a new road then you have to get a cat in to make the portages driveable. What stops the roads in the spring is usually the portages loose their snow and the approaches getting on and off the lakes flood. Hope that helps Regards Walt PS SOUTH WESt of Yellowknife would put you into great Slave Lake I think the IR ment NW of Yellowknife

To: The Fix who wrote (4547)	12/25/1997 4:09:00 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 26850

A portage give the deer flies a chance to nest in your hair and an opportunity for you to count how many blackflies can go up you nose in one breath. After putting the canoe down some coureur de bois drowned themselves in the River :) Birch Back packs weighed 90 pounds loaded with fur and the canoe weighed 3600 pounds. (It was 30 plus feet long, 4 feet deep and 5 feet in beam. Each man had 3 packs to carry and some carried double. 36 men manned the canoe, and one man's duty was to brew tea from a brass samovar in the middle of the boat. Longest portage between Montreal and Winnipeg was 18 miles. Canoeists were all French and non could swim. Indians were used as guides and translators but rarely paddled. The men paddled from day break to about 3 PM with 3 breaks, a distance of about 60 nautical miles a day. (a 32 foot boat has a natural speed of 7.6 miles per hour) The bowman was never taller than five feet, he set a long slow stroke of about 50 beats a minute and paddled standing up. The French Priests enforced and one day rest period on Sunday for the Indians too, by demonstrating that a crew could paddle farther by resting once in a while than going continuously. (True) to this day you cannot get a Quebecker to do much on a Sunday and they still can't swim. echarter@vianet.on.ca